6. Use of health services
When [the respondent] has health issues, where does [the respondent] go for help?
[] 1 IMSS (Public health care)
[] 2 ISSSTE
[] 3 State ISSSTE
[] 4 Pemex, Army, or Navy
[] 5 Health Center or SSA Hospital (Seguro Popular) (Public health insurance)
[] 6 Private doctor?s office, clinic, or hospital
[] 7 Clinic in a pharmacy
[] 8 Other place
[] 9 Does not go to doctor
6. Use of health services
This question identifies the institution, establishment, or place attended by the occupants to receive medical health care when they have health problems. Read the question, listen the answer and circle the corresponding code.
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If the respondent answers that the person goes to more than one health institution, ask which he/she attends more frequently and circle the option declared. Consider that the response options are read only when the informant indicates doubts about how to answer, with words or with gestures. Moreover, take into account the following information:
[] Given very general answers like name or number of the clinic, ask to the person if he/she is enrolled in the IMSS, ISSSTE, the Health Secretary, or another and circle the corresponding code.
[] If the answer is ISSSTE and the person is a federal government worker, circle the code 2: ISSSTE.
[] When people are workers from state or municipal governments and they attend to social security institutions of the state, circle the code 3: State ISSSTE, for example:
[] ISSSSPEA for Aguascalientes state.
[] ISSSTECALI for Baja California state.
[] ISSSTECH for Chiapas state.
[] CIVIL PENSIONS for Chihuahua state.
[] ISSEMYM for Mexico state.
[] ISSSTELEON for Nuevo León state.
[] ISSSTEP for Puebla state.
[] ISSSTESON for Sonora state.
[] ISSET for Tabasco state.
[] UPYSSET for Tamaulipas state.
[] ISSSTEZAC for Zacatecas state.
If the respondent mentions that the occupants attend an establishment or medical office that belongs to a pharmacy which provides medical care in exchange for a payment, circle option 7 "Clinic in a pharmacy".
When the informant declares that they use health services from the Oportunidades Program (Prospera) or from other charity institutions such as the Red Cross, Green Cross, Amber Cruz, medical dispensary, midwife, health promoter, or they use homeopathy or acupuncture, circle the code 8 "another place".
For people who claim to go to a healer, bonesetter, witchdoctor, herbalist, or homemade remedies, as well as answers like "does not go to the doctor", "homemade remedies", "do not use medical services", circle option 9 "does not go to the doctor". Also, include in this option to persons who indicate that take medications on their own with no recommendation (prescription) from a doctor, i.e. without consulting a doctor or health professional.